The Recent Past and the Near Future

Well, since school has started we have gone through 2 rounds of sickness. In between those times I have been traveling to my sister's home to quilt. I do have a sewing machine, but it was pulling the batting through. K. has one and that was scrunching the material. So I made the trip as often as I could (about 2 times per week - it's about 1/2 hour drive one way).

I am in the final stages of finishing J.'s quilt! Finally! This project has taken several years, but it is just gorgeous and I am very well pleased with it. I am so excited for him to see it! He knows nothing about it and will be very surprised...I hope!

Previously I had done tie quilts. I still like them, but WOW I have totally discovered that quilting can make such a huge impact to the overall appearance of the quilt afterwards.

I will post pics of the completed project when I am done. I'm very excited to share the pics with all of you!

My next quilt (for me) will probably be a jean rag quilt. Wendy made K. one and it is deliciously heavy. Wendy will have to walk me through the process of that one as it is very different than what I am used to doing!

I do believe that K. and I will be doing some sewing though this week as she is working on her quilt, which looks totally awesome.

On the days when I'm not at Wendy's, and the children are healthy, I am usually taking the cello into school (it's not allowed on the bus), doing laundry, going VT, running errands, cleaning etc. The days go by so quickly!

Pretty soon I hope to work on addressing Christmas cards (which I haven't done in several years). I have been procrastinating as I recently lost many of my addresses. They're probably somewhere in the house, but where?

I also need to work on Christmas shopping. I have barely scratched the surface of this one!

Now you know what I've been doing and what I will be doing in the near future.

Summer Fun

In the summer there were so many things to blog about. Taking K. to the temple for the first time, spending time with family, going to pageant, birthdays, swimming, haircuts and then school started.

These pics don't even begin to show the many things we did. It's just a tiny sampling. :)

Roasting Marshmallows

At the Visitor's Center in Palmyra.

The Cousins.

Lori, K, S, J and Grandma

A very large puzzle of Australia that we put together.

K. on haircut day

S. on haircut day.

J. on the first day of school this year.

Sick kiddos

I wanted my first post to be a sum up of the summer months. However, that's not happening now. It is late, I am tired and I want to post without having to worry about writing something long (which it almost certainly would be if I covered the summer months).

Since school began all three kids have been sick. S. missed a lot in September and all of last week. J. missed a bunch in September and K. has missed last Wednesday and all of this week so far. I do believe she will be going to school tomorrow though.

I feel really bad for them when they are sick. It is certainly no fun. I am glad that they are all doing better and are healthy again.

I would end with something witty, but that would take too much thinking on my part. (Can I say tired?)

Night.

Ch-ch-ch-changes are coming!

Well the layout has changed and soon I will be updating my posts.

I believe that blogging is similar to journaling and the further I get behind, the harder it is to start up again because there is just so much to say and so little time. (At least that's the way it feels!)

So hopefully soon I will have posts and pictures on-line.

Thanks!

Just as an FYI...I love hearing from all of you and I love comments! So thanks to all of you who have commented. I would have sent emails thanking you, but I don't have all of your addresses.

So, thanks!

Ouch!

*****Disclaimer - Gross Pictures *****

When I am in a hurry, I go on fast mode.

Yesterday I was running late leaving for teaching piano. I was hurrying down the driveway (more than a walk, less than a run) when I took a tumble.

Mom, this is where my Judo must have kicked in (even though I didn't take it very long, I learned to always roll when falling).

I fell forward, hitting my right knee and then both my hands. I ended up rolling, catching my elbow and my hip area. (At some point I must have hit a part of my right foot, but I don't know when that was and that is very minor.) I ended up on my back looking up at the sky.

Unbeknownst to me, J. was watching and told Wayne that I tripped. Wayne looked out the window to see me lying on the driveway looking up.

I went inside, changed my jeans, (I ripped up my only pair of blue jeans. I was sad because they don't make that kind any more and I will have to look for something else that I can like.) and cleaned myself off. I went and taught piano.

I called home after lessons. Wayne had dinner going. He had vacuumed. After dinner he did the dishes, cleaned the counters and even - gasp - wiped off the stove and table. Later when I mentioned that I had to switch the laundry, he did it for me. I am such a lucky woman.

I wasn't going to post this, but when I told Wen, she told me to email them to her. So I was going to, but then I thought, should I send them to the rest of the family as well? But who wants gross pictures of a scrapped up knee? So, I am posting 4 pictures. One of my sadly, major-ly ripped pants that will soon become shorts and one of my knee and one of each hand.

Left HandRight Hand

Right Knee

Lori's Many Hairstyles

Well, my hair was driving me nuts. It was getting long and bushy. I was doing so much construction work that my hair was up in a pony tail almost daily and I was getting headaches.

So...I decided to have it cut.

I realized that when I went looking for before pictures, that I really don't have very many pictures of me, and some of the ones I have aren't very flattering. Anyway, this is me on a good hair day with it longer.

Before

Before I got it cut, I had every intention of posting how cute it was. Needless to say that I didn't really like the cut, nor do I think it was flattering.

Blech...

My friend, Michelle, came over and styled it. It looked much better, but was more labor intensive. Also, she realized that they didn't cut my hair straight. The back was different lengths on each side.

Cute, but still crooked.

So, I decided to save up and get it cut again - and even this time! Keep in mind that I normally only get my hair cut about once per year, if I'm lucky.

This is after it was re-cut and Michelle styled it.


The next 2 are with the same cut, but I played with styling it.


Now I am ok with it. I think it is cute (on the days I style it!), I am not getting headaches, and I don't have to put it into a ponytail anytime I want to do anything!

The end of the hair drama. (And you probably won't see so many pictures of me all on one post again!)